Deleting a node from the Chef server

Bootstrapping a node not only installs Chef on that node, but creates a client object on the Chef server as well. Running the Chef client on your node uses the client object to authenticate itself against the Chef server on each run.

Additionally, to registering a client, a node object is created on the Chef server. The node object is the main data structure, which you can use to query node data inside your recipes.

Getting ready

Make sure you have at least one node registered on your Chef server that is safe to remove.

How to do it...

Let's delete the node and client object to completely remove a node from the Chef server.

  1. Delete the node object:
    mma@laptop:~/chef-repo $ knife node delete my_node

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